As I prepare myself to stay away from my chess activity (including my posting's here in our blog) to buckle down to work, I thought of playing OTB games with my 4 blocks away neighbor Gilbert last Saturday, 8PM till 12 PM.
As we were both working Padre de pamilya, both with 3 young kids, we had to wait to put the kids to sleep and made sure our loving-chess-envious wives were happy with their Saturday night TV jams before we played 30-30 games in his place.
Yes I won 8 games, lost twice and drew once against him. The draw still lingers in my head and probably rocks Gilbert's brain out to the hilt.
Here is the drawn game :
I was white and he just made his move h4-h3. All my rook checks to the black King leads to a draw. A capture would definitely end the game into draw immediately. The highs I always look forward to especially when I'm down and almost out.
What happened was I moved my rook on f4+ and he captured with his pawn. That's when I said "draw pare!' To his dismay and to my moon and back grin on my face!
What you think? Really a draw?
no its not a drwaish position, black must not take the rook, you go away until the check block by the bishop.
ReplyDeletenot a draw sir.
ReplyDeletea possible variant:
1 Rf4+ Kh5
2 Rh4+ Kg6
3 Rh6+ Kf5
4 Rf6+ Ke4
5 Rf4+ Kd3
6 Rf3 Be3 -+
in the first place, why h4-h3?
ReplyDeletewhy not a bishop move or a rook move?
2 connected pawns and another protected pawn plus a bishop, why didn't you resign immediately?
i think you should better resign than to have drawn your game with a blunder on one side and with that position and number of pieces, it's illogical to continue the game.
instead of h3 black should have played king g3 with a forced mate on h2.
ReplyDeleteand if rook f2 the only move, then king takes f2, king h2 and its over.
mike